Sweet Molly Malone! Is it supposed to look like that? I mean, was the face horribly melted and then not repaired as some sort of cost saving measure? Or is he Saint Meltface of the Crawling Skin Dreams, sent to guard the land from invaders, because no one wants to live near that thing?

I’m pretty sure the meltiness is intended… partly because the hands and body are so elaborate and not even remotely melted, partly because of the gruesome look on his face, and partly because, in the previous shot, the ground the statue is standing on is also melting. It’s that kinda weird avant garde stuff where the framing is part of the art, and it’s just as weird.

I’m pretty sure that’s the building Ben et al. live in in the last panel, so Marcus and the Jakes are probably at Gene’s. (And it’s cool that it’s possible to tell that just by seeing a corner of it… architectural detail and consistency like that are rare.) I don’t think there’s been any indication that the building’s particularly close to that particular piece of dubious Templar civic sculpture.

Nah, Nicky’s report was about a guy in the hostel, not Marcus. Probably the guy you saw getting his face stepped on. Way I see it, dudes got only two choices, join up or die. Cause if the Jakeskin are about surviving when the world crashes, they gotta respect at least a little how Biggs n EJ can keep going. Though Biggs would totally need to detox if that were to happen.